School Girls (TV Series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | School girl |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2002, 2004-2005 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 15 in 2 seasons |
| genre | comedy |
| music | Pilot film: 100% Emotional - No Angels 1st season: Hey Baby - No Doubt 2nd season: Hook Me Up - school girl |
| First broadcast | May 31, 2002 on RTL |
| occupation | |
Schulmädchen is a television series of the transmitter RTL . A 45-minute pilot film ran successfully on May 31, 2002. The first season of six episodes of the series was then launched on January 30, 2004. On April 25, 2005, the first season was released on DVD after the second season was filmed. This consisted of eight episodes and was broadcast in the fall of the same year. In 2006 this season was released on DVD. As of February 2008, the series was repeated on Comedy Central .
content
The series is about the problems of four teenagers : Laura ( Birthe Wolter ) recently moved to Munich from Passau and is hoping to make new friends in her new school. Once there, she immediately recognizes that the whole school is only ruled by cliques . The school's most popular clique consists of the wealthy, arrogant, supposed virgin Stella ( Simone Hanselmann ), the clever Lili ( various actresses, see below ) and the sexually active Cara ( Laura Osswald ). In the pilot film, Laura is supposed to seduce her English trainee ( Henning Baum ) in order to get into the clique so that they can come up with the solutions for the English exam. The further episodes deal with the problems posed by the clique around Stella, Cara, Laura and Lili. The counterpart to Stella is played by Arzu Bazman in the role of Ramona. Ramona would actually like to be integrated into the high society clique herself. Therefore she tries again and again to sabotage the clique around Stella or to make sure that they are thrown from school. The episode Method Acting from the second season makes it clear that Ramona suffers from not belonging to the cool clique.
occupation
Leading actresses
| actor | role | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Birthe Wolter | Laura Heller | Pilot, 1-2 |
| Simone Hanselmann | Stella Morgenroth | Pilot, 1-2 |
| Laura Osswald | Cara de Boni | Pilot, 1-2 |
| Jessica Franz | Lilliane "Lili" Frank | pilot |
| Saskia de Lando | 1 | |
| Marie Rönnebeck | 2 |
With the changing actresses of "Lili", the interpretation of the role also changed. Lili hardly had a say in the pilot and was portrayed as a bitchy school DJ, as a follower of Cara and Stella. In the first season she was a feminist environmental activist who is also active in animal welfare. In the last season she becomes more revealing and open-hearted again, but remains the conscience of Cara and Stella.
supporting cast
| actor | role | Seasons |
|---|---|---|
| Arzu Bazman | Ramona | Pilot, 1-2 |
| Thomas Limpinsel | Paul Heller | Pilot, 1-2 |
| Tim Bertram | Phillipp Heller | pilot |
| Constantin Gastmann | 1-2 | |
| Stefan Rutz | Mr. Lenz | 1-2 |
| Elyas M'Barek | Alican | 1 |
| Eralp Uzun | 2 | |
| Katharina Blaschke | Gisela Birkle | pilot |
| Adele Neuhauser | 1 | |
| Susanne Czepl | 2 | |
| Fabian Oscar Vienna | Zig Zag | pilot |
| Tom Lass | 1 | |
| Isabella Jantz | Bettina | Pilot, 1-2 |
production
Director
For the direction of the first episodes the name Alan Smithee was given in the opening and closing credits , which is a sign that the actual director is distancing himself from his work. Apart from that, Axel Sand is responsible for camera and direction for the first season. The second season of the series was largely written by Bora Drachtkin , who shortly thereafter had his final breakthrough with the ARD series Turkish for Beginners .
Backdrop
The Franz-Joseph-Strauss Gymnasium has a total of three different interior facades. In the first season, the inner building was different than in the pilot film. Another change of the interior facade took place in the second season. However, the same exterior shots from the first season were partially used here. The Hellers (Laura) apartment is enlarged over the course of the series. In the pilot it is a simple apartment that can only be seen briefly. In season 1 a small loft and in season 2 a completely different apartment. The exterior facade, however, remained the same as at the Franz-Joseph-Strauss Gymnasium.
music
The theme song for the second season was called Hook Me Up and was sung by the actresses themselves. As a single from the soundtrack, it reached number 50 in the German sales charts (August 8, 2005). The theme songs for the pilot and the first season were from No Angels and No Doubt .
Others
Some connection and logic errors have crept into production. In the pilot film, the three friends drive to school in a Mercedes with the registration number "M-LS 1140" before the opening credits . Immediately after the opening credits, a Ferrari with this license plate can be seen in close-up in the high school parking lot and the Mercedes arrives with the license plate "M-HV 1064". The original license plate can then be seen on a third vehicle before it reappears on the Mercedes in another driving scene. This can only be seen in the front right with steel and then again with aluminum rims.
The age of the protagonists also varies from episode to episode. Once they are of legal age and drive a car, then they invoke their minority again, but also visit strip bars and work as phone sex workers, or have to be in the care of childcare.
criticism
The series was criticized, among others, by the German Association of Philologists and the then Bavarian Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Monika Hohlmeier . She described the series as "embarrassing", "low-level and absolutely primitive". She further criticized the fact that the name of her late father Franz Josef Strauss was used to name the high school, the central location of the series . A permission to use the name was not granted, according to Hohlmeier.
Awards
For her portrayal of Ramona in the series was Arzu Bazman 2004 for the German Comedy Award as Best Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.
Episodes
In 2002 the pilot of the series was released, in which Laura, in order to get into the clique, is supposed to seduce her English trainee so that they can come up with the solutions for the English exam.
First season (2004)
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Next title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | Pilot* | May 31, 2002 |
| 2 | 1 | Bigger is better | January 30, 2004 |
| 3 | 2 | The fragrance of women | February 6, 2004 |
| 4th | 3 | Three is one too many | February 13, 2004 |
| 5 | 4th | Call! Me! On! | February 20, 2004 |
| 6th | 5 | The agony of choice | February 27, 2004 |
| 7th | 6th | The beetle man | February 27, 2004 |
Second season (2005)
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Next title | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8th | 1 | The school mom | July 29, 2005 |
| 9 | 2 | Chromosome XY unresolved | July 29, 2005 |
| 10 | 3 | Pool boys & sextoys | August 5, 2005 |
| 11 | 4th | Avarice is cool | August 5, 2005 |
| 12 | 5 | Help, i'm a lesbian | August 12, 2005 |
| 13 | 6th | Carpet slut | August 12, 2005 |
| 14th | 7th | Method acting | August 19, 2005 |
| 15th | 8th | Sex diet | August 12, 2005 |